{"id":459,"date":"2011-06-07T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/specialcollections\/2011\/06\/07\/archive-item-of-the-month-june-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T11:10:00","slug":"archive-item-of-the-month-june-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/2011\/06\/07\/archive-item-of-the-month-june-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive Item of the Month &#8211; June 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center\"><a style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/36fef-dsc04690.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/36fef-dsc04690.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>To coincide with the Cheltenham Science Festival our item of the month has a slightly scientific theme. Pictured is a copy of a poem on ascending Mount Everest by Samuel Robinson, who was a student at the Cheltenham Training College between 1906-1908. The poem is about the climb made by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing, and is indicative of the type of material we hold relating to alumni and their work. We receive material detailing students\u2019 lives whilst studying and in some cases what they do after leaving the institution. Together with the poem we have a newspaper article on Mr Robinson, a handwritten letter donating the poem to what was then St Paul\u2019s College, and a Christmas card with another of Mr Robinson\u2019s poems \u2013 all of which help to build a wider picture.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an excerpt from the poem:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">Merciless, pitiless, glowerest thou around \u2013<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">Time\u2019s monument upheav\u2019d by ageless force,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">From whose slopes, ice-bound, sheer, rise icy walls,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">Which beat back mountaineers \u2013 whose form appals,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">Yet, whose challenge intrepid souls, like theirs, ne\u2019er stays.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">As from hallow\u2019d ground, pyramidal giant thou towerest,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">From thee fell dangers \u2013 worst e\u2019er met \u2013 descend<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">On stout hearts braving all who dare invade<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">Thy quiet repose and naked privacy \u2013<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">Thou Sphinx-like wonder hewn by hand unseen<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>University Archive reference number D111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To coincide with the Cheltenham Science Festival our item of the month has a slightly scientific theme. 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